Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, had joined G. Arthur Brown and their host, George W. Kennedy, board chairman of the Kelsey-Hayes Co., at an exclusive businessmen's duck-hunting preserve on Ste. Anne's Island, on the Canadian side of Lake St. Clair. After a good night's sleep in the island's lodge, the four hunters rose late, sampled the icy (17°) morning air, had a leisurely breakfast. By 9:45 a.m. Curtice and Anderson were seated side by side on cartridge cases behind their blind, with 12-gauge shotguns at the ready...
...coast were pulled back on June 5. The only daylight action of the Luftwaffe on D-day was one two-plane air strike. For twelve hours, Jodl refused to release two Panzer divisions that might have been thrown in, and feared to interrupt Hitler's pill-drugged sleep with news of the invasion until the official Allied communique. Wakened in the forenoon of June 6, Hitler ranted, as always, at his generals, and clung to the illusion that the invasion was another Dieppe-style raid...
...Family Doctor magazine opened an all-out campaign against snoring, asked all British sufferers (and their suffering spouses) to write in the answers to questions that might shed light on causes and remedies. Sample questions: At what age did the snorer begin snoring? In what position does he sleep? Does he have false teeth, or smoke, or chew...
...return mail the snorers got instructions for an exercise that may curb snoring: "Hold something firmly between your teeth (or gums if you have no teeth) for ten minutes after going to bed but before settling to sleep." In each letter Family Doctor enclosed a wooden tongue depressor "very suitable" for holding between the teeth. The exercise strengthens muscles that hold the mouth closed, helps Britons to control snoring by keeping a stiff upper...
...take this cheery homestead and turn it into a mechanized madhouse. Hulot, after discovering a rubber-based pitcher that bounces, tried to bounce a glass, only to find that brother-in-law's technicians haven't modernized that item yet. When a modern sofa proves impossible for Hulot to sleep in, he discovers that turned on it side it fits the contours of his body perfectly...